career

I mentor someone who has the less than the 5 plus years of experience that most user experience jobs require. I know there is much debate about this requirement, but I was wondering if it is more of a geographic requirement? Also, is it really a requirement at all? I remember reading a job posting in 2006 requiring 10 years of experience in information architecture and most if not all of the common deliverables, but no portfolio requirement.

I used to be quite a successful web-designer 10 years ago
(before we I got children and moved to another country). Now I plan to restart
my professional experienced, whilst still working mainly from home as a
freelancer. I used to work mainly in Photoshop, but also with HTML, CSS,
JavaScript etc. So in general my task was to make the site look nice and
practical, whilst leaving to others to make it work. As I said, I did know html
coding, but this was not exactly my favourite thing.

I am at a crossroads in my career. I have been a UI Developer for 15 years and I am a capstone away from graduating with a masters in HCI. Should I look to internships as a way to get into a full time UX position or should I apply for entry level UX positions (as long as I can show related experience)? Internships seem like a great way to get introduced to a company, but I am worried that internships are only for people in their 20s. I am in my late 30s and the clock is ticking.

I am from South Korea and studying new media advertising in the U.S. I am really confused about the UX career responsibilities. There are so many titles such as planning, UX, research, usability and human factors. Is there a difference between planning and UX and research and usability and human factors – or is it all the same job?

I have an interview with a large pan-European technology company next week who are opening up a new role for a user experience architect. Reading between the lines in the job spec, the role also involves service design and some business analysis; this is something that I welcome. As a company that is opening up a new user experience architect role, what are the pertinent questions I should be asking to uncover what is planned for the future? I don’t want to be a UX team of one for the long-term.